Yukari Takimoto Amos is a full professor at Central Washington University. She teaches a wide range of subjects including Asian Studies, linguistics, and multicultural education. With graduate training at both Japanese and U.S. universities, she has been a professor or an instructor in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Hong Kong. Daniel Miles Amos was the first U.S. graduate student to successfully complete ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has held academic positions at several universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University in greater China, and Clark Atlanta University in the United States.

This book is part of two volumes on the theory and practice of integrating international children’s literature from Asia into the teaching curriculum. The multiple authors who are themselves international in scope, provide intellectual and practical foundations that move beyond the normative cultural diversity arguments for integrating Asian literature in the curriculum. There is a focus on how to practically attain cultural empathy for students by intentional practice, along with the cultural reasoning. In a world where we want students to engage beyond their classroom to a wider world, these essays provide pragmatic and detailed ideas and materials for teachers at all levels of training or practice to use in their pedagogy. The book empowers us with informed suggestions, cultural aids, and grounded theories.

• ForewordLauri JohnsonPrefaceYukari Takimoto AmosAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Miles AmosPart I: Classroom ApplicationsChapter 1 – Gods, Heroes, Wisdom, and Wit in Children’s Stories from IndiaAnita BalagopalanChapter 2 – Thai Cultural References and Decision Making in the Happiness of KatiKamolwan Fairee JocunsChapter 3 – Chinese Children Stories, Confucianism, and the FamilyHaiyue (Fiona) Shan with Daniel Miles AmosChapter 4 – The Monkey within You: Journey to the West, An Essential text of Chinese Religion and Folk CosmologyDaniel Miles AmosChapter 5 – Reading Sadako with Third GradersTrina LaneganPart II: Annotated Bibliography of International Children’s Literature from Selected Asian CountriesChina/Taiwan Miao Ying (Janet)ChenIndonesia Tati L. DurriyahJapan Yae Takimoto Hite and Katrina Manami KnightPhilippinesJordan PianoSouth KoreaEun YooThailand Kamolwan Fairee JocunsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Yukari Takimoto Amos is a full professor at Central Washington University. She teaches a wide range of subjects including Asian Studies, linguistics, and multicultural education. With graduate training at both Japanese and U.S. universities, she has been a professor or an instructor in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Hong Kong. Daniel Miles Amos was the first U.S. graduate student to successfully complete ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has held academic positions at several universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University in greater China, and Clark Atlanta University in the United States.

This book is part of two volumes on the theory and practice of integrating international children’s literature from Asia into the teaching curriculum. The multiple authors who are themselves international in scope, provide intellectual and practical foundations that move beyond the normative cultural diversity arguments for integrating Asian literature in the curriculum. There is a focus on how to practically attain cultural empathy for students by intentional practice, along with the cultural reasoning. In a world where we want students to engage beyond their classroom to a wider world, these essays provide pragmatic and detailed ideas and materials for teachers at all levels of training or practice to use in their pedagogy. The book empowers us with informed suggestions, cultural aids, and grounded theories.

• ForewordLauri JohnsonPrefaceYukari Takimoto AmosAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Miles AmosPart I: Classroom ApplicationsChapter 1 – Gods, Heroes, Wisdom, and Wit in Children’s Stories from IndiaAnita BalagopalanChapter 2 – Thai Cultural References and Decision Making in the Happiness of KatiKamolwan Fairee JocunsChapter 3 – Chinese Children Stories, Confucianism, and the FamilyHaiyue (Fiona) Shan with Daniel Miles AmosChapter 4 – The Monkey within You: Journey to the West, An Essential text of Chinese Religion and Folk CosmologyDaniel Miles AmosChapter 5 – Reading Sadako with Third GradersTrina LaneganPart II: Annotated Bibliography of International Children’s Literature from Selected Asian CountriesChina/Taiwan Miao Ying (Janet)ChenIndonesia Tati L. DurriyahJapan Yae Takimoto Hite and Katrina Manami KnightPhilippinesJordan PianoSouth KoreaEun YooThailand Kamolwan Fairee JocunsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Yukari Takimoto Amos is a full professor at Central Washington University. She teaches a wide range of subjects including Asian Studies, linguistics, and multicultural education. With graduate training at both Japanese and U.S. universities, she has been a professor or an instructor in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Hong Kong. Daniel Miles Amos was the first U.S. graduate student to successfully complete ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has held academic positions at several universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University in greater China, and Clark Atlanta University in the United States.

This book is part of two volumes on the theory and practice of integrating international children’s literature from Asia into the teaching curriculum. The multiple authors who are themselves international in scope, provide intellectual and practical foundations that move beyond the normative cultural diversity arguments for integrating Asian literature in the curriculum. There is a focus on how to practically attain cultural empathy for students by intentional practice, along with the cultural reasoning. In a world where we want students to engage beyond their classroom to a wider world, these essays provide pragmatic and detailed ideas and materials for teachers at all levels of training or practice to use in their pedagogy. The book empowers us with informed suggestions, cultural aids, and grounded theories.

• ForewordLauri JohnsonPrefaceYukari Takimoto AmosAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Miles AmosPart I: Classroom ApplicationsChapter 1 – Gods, Heroes, Wisdom, and Wit in Children’s Stories from IndiaAnita BalagopalanChapter 2 – Thai Cultural References and Decision Making in the Happiness of KatiKamolwan Fairee JocunsChapter 3 – Chinese Children Stories, Confucianism, and the FamilyHaiyue (Fiona) Shan with Daniel Miles AmosChapter 4 – The Monkey within You: Journey to the West, An Essential text of Chinese Religion and Folk CosmologyDaniel Miles AmosChapter 5 – Reading Sadako with Third GradersTrina LaneganPart II: Annotated Bibliography of International Children’s Literature from Selected Asian CountriesChina/Taiwan Miao Ying (Janet)ChenIndonesia Tati L. DurriyahJapan Yae Takimoto Hite and Katrina Manami KnightPhilippinesJordan PianoSouth KoreaEun YooThailand Kamolwan Fairee JocunsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors